Mike Dreyden
He got his start in theater with home training with his uncle Pablo Figueroa, an independent film maker. He was later enrolled at HB Studio where he studied Scene Study and Improv under Uta Hagen and Trudy Steible respectively. Over the years, Mike has appeared in a number of Off-Off Broadway productions, independent and adult films, mostly recently as Larry in Goodby Seventies, Steve in Available Light and the upcoming This Side of Heaven film by Todd Verow. As a member of Mirror Repertory Company Mike honed his skills with acclaimed Broadway veteran Sabra Jones-McAteer and with Alan Gordon of the Alan Gordon Studio in Greenwich Village and other workshops.
The End of Cruising (2013)
A documentary about gay male cruising and public sex and how it has changed over the years. (more)
A documentary about gay male cruising and public sex and how it has changed over the years. (more)
This Side of Heaven (2016)
V, an older trans woman, is desperately trying to hold on to her rent stabilized apartment in New York City. (more)
V, an older trans woman, is desperately trying to hold on to her rent stabilized apartment in New York City. (more)
Available Light (2015)
An experimental feature film about people in different cities who are trying to escape their loneliness through love, lust or a combination of both. The film was shot in real locations using only available light. The viewer is both a voyeur - watching the ... (more)
An experimental feature film about people in different cities who are trying to escape their loneliness through love, lust or a combination of both. The film was shot in real locations using only available light. The viewer is both a voyeur - watching the ... (more)
Goodbye Seventies
(2020)
In the 1970s, the golden age of gay pornography in New York City, a promising chorus boy is injured and told he will never dance again. Distraught and unimpressed with the "art" films playing seedy Times Square theaters, he gets his friends and lovers together and ... (more)
In the 1970s, the golden age of gay pornography in New York City, a promising chorus boy is injured and told he will never dance again. Distraught and unimpressed with the "art" films playing seedy Times Square theaters, he gets his friends and lovers together and ... (more)